Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying

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xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Some of these are valid, especially #6 and #7

But a lot of them, frankly, just aren’t true:

  1. Can’t turn off album art or colorized elements changing bright colors while driving

You can turn off the flashy moving stuff entirely with one setting, if you get distracted by a static album art image while driving then you really should be using a hardware device to control playback instead tbh

1a. The last straw for me was when they deprecated car mode entirely

Car mode is still here, and works perfectly well - in fact they’ve improved the visual clarity recently to make it even clearer

  1. Can’t combine your own music

They won’t host it for you, but you can absolutely combine the music on your local device with your local library

  1. No normalization adjustments for songs that are too loud or too quiet

There is a setting for exactly this. I personally think there’s something to be said for not modifying songs in the background though

  1. No per-device (or at all iirc?) Equalization

Yes there is, afaik it’s per-device only

  1. Periodic check-in required

Ehh, this one’s kinda fair from a business perspective - it makes sense that the platform would need to verify your subscription occasionally for licensing reasons, but I can see why this would be mildly annoying if you use it very infrequently and are eg on a plane

  1. Constant background app openings

I’m not sure I can say I’ve seen any issue with this, but if you really don’t like it being active in the background, you can just turn off Spotify Connect in the background in settings

  1. Quality is terrible

If the audio quality is audibly bad then it’s likely due to not using the very high audio quality setting, or automatic quality adjustment due to network conditions (again, you can turn this off though it may result in buffering)

Honestly, I don’t think playing music through the worst speaker you can find is a reasonable way to assess the audio quality - like yeah, no shit it’s going to be bad. “Doctor doctor, it hurts when I do this”

Tldr: just look at settings lol

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